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Jim Allchin by relaunching the Official Windows Vista blog at it's new homepage, windowsvistablog.com

Welcome to the new and improved Windows Vista blog. A few months back, I pushed our team to bring the

Yesterday the new Vista blog launched with a post from Jim Allchin . Our guys did a great job with the

The Mad Blogger is excited about Windows Vista! TMB has been running Vista on a machine for a few weeks

It seems all Community Server bloggers are posting about it today! Jim Allchin and his Windows Vista

Welcome to Our New Team Blog! We’re coming to the close of the development cycle...

It looks very nice, good work

The Windows Vista team partnered with Telligent to launch this nice and clean Community Server blog site

I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the

Excellent new blog design, really nice looking.

Hey,

Great job on the new blog!

~Jason

Hi Jim, looking forward to try vista rtm

Vista will rocks around the world ...:)

Cesare

Vista-Longhorn Technical Beta Tester

Yeah I love the new look, the gallery/slideshow is really cool, with small thumbnails that pop up when you go over the pic number, the darker colured vista look is shocking at first as its a big contrast to the white background that the site used to have.  However its grown on me and is really professional looking,  I even like how the webpage fades out when you navigate away to go to another website.

It looks like I will need an avatar soon too, Ill get one when I get off work.

Keep up the good work :-)

Hi Jim and Vista Team,

Superb blog design!

Here in France, we are waiting for the Vista RTM...

Laurent

President of the French Windows Vista User Group (GUWIV: http://www.guwiv.com)

The new design is really slammin.  I think you should let everyone know that you have to re-register though.

こんにちは！！

Hi Sir Jim , nwhite and Vista Team !!

It's began to REAL VISTA WORLD :-)

The All Japanese waiting for Vista at Tokyo !!

Well if you're taking Vista coding as seriously as you are this website then it's an out of date bloated mess.

Sorry but a waterside picture and some big fonts doesn't excuse backwards crap coding like this -

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Well if you're taking Vista coding as seriously as you are this website then it's an out of date bloated mess.

Sorry but a waterside picture and some big fonts doesn't excuse backwards crap coding like this -

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Did you design this on Frontpage?

I'm a little bit late to blog about this, but better late than never, right? Yesterday, Microsoft launched

I must say that Vista is geting better from rc1 but there is yet problems on installing it (on my case). I did install it to my work laptop but it haves too little memory and I did make almost day work on that (installing it). Deleting all drivers, trying to make right NTFS-partitions, nothing helped. Then I try to put XP64 image back that C partition (image was corrupted) and replacing went wrong, but then installing Vista worked :-)

Tare69

Finland

Jim,

We are going to miss your pushing things to perfection from behind the scenes.  Best of luck in your new (and hopefully more relaxed) life.

Regards,

 =D-

Derek R. Flickinger

Guys:

I want to approach Vista from another point of view.  I am a control systems engineer, primarily in the process and manufacturing industries.  Most of the major (and minor) vendors use some version of a Microsoft OS for the operator stations, generally either Windows CE or XP Embedded for factory floor displays, or Win2K or WinXP for control room consoles.  In all cases, the OS and the vendor's display applications are preinstalled.  Now, I understand that the vendor does have some control over what is loaded, but most don't have the expertise to tailor a Windows OS appropriately.  

The issue is one of incorporating technologies that are of little or no use in this environment.  Multi-media applications are extremely rare.  As a matter of security, we recommend that clients NOT connect their control systems to the Internet, even through a firewall, so internet connectivity is rarely used.

What is prized above almost everything is reliability and robustness.  Having to reboot a control processor or even a display system because the OS and/or the non-used technology applications wanker up the system is definitely NOT acceptable.

I would like to see more effort put in to developing a tailoring system with a higher degree of granularity.  I know the Vista build paths are incredibly complex, but I have to wonder how much of that is essential versus a tool to keep competitors out of baseline features.  

BTW, most control system vendors still use Win2K, having just migrated from NT within the past two years.  A few have certified WinXP, but I have not heard of any even contemplating Vista.  Too much of a resource hog, particularly for features that are unneeded in this market.

nice job on the layout :)

keep on the good stuffs

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I really think that the team did a great job with this blog. Look for up coming events and news to work with.

Less auto-back-patting, more meat on the bones please.

I am still to hear of ANY must-have feature of Vista, it all sounds just like it is essentially windows xp SP3 with "windows blinds" and some skins thrown in to fool the general public.

Hi Jim,

Testing Windows Vista (which i love), led me to thoughts of how software development complexity increases exponentially not linearly with the number of lines of code under development. Not certain of solutions, creating the instance from the internet in real time. But the thought is that Vista is a step forward, 90% of destops do run windows, and i wish i could tell you how do 'do it better'. The critics who will state that Vista is not a product are incorrect.

More importanlty, i think, is that people make products. And we are living in a time where if born today you have a 50% chance of living to 100 years.

As it relates to this product, it appears that we have created a culture that forces 99.9 of it's citizens out. (like the movie 'Blade Runner'). I don't think that is what Bill G. intended.

The real problems of software development appear to be about human creativity, interaction and collaberation. Those skills have to grow with years of experience, so experience should be a positive, not a negative factor. Certainly not unlike Mr. Buffett who is today very much active in his chosen profession. Anyhow an interesting. Your team has done good work here. And it may have taken longer than anticipated. 'Because!!!', human interactions also go up exponentially with size of the development team. Best of luck, Why__Not (nar@msn.com)

Hey guys that is very cool, appart from the fact that I had to reregister everything is great.  I like the fact that in site options you can Theme the site to your preference.

e.g. alternate 1 (dark purple theme)

    basic blue  (This is similar to the old version website with a white background)

    default  (The new fancy site view)

Do you guys plan on adding any new site Themes/options in the future :-)

Yah, I defiantly like the new look! Are you using some pre-built blogging software (I'm guessing not as most of them don't use the .aspx extension). If not, this software could seriously be a cool server product (Microsoft Weblog Server 2007 or something like that...). Really nice design, I love it.

Microsoft rocks (well, except for Internet Explorer) as does this website (which is now in my Bookmarks. Thanks CodeProject Insider newsletter for recommending another great site!

-Tyler Menezes

www.ProgramsAndWebsites.com, www.MyWebsFree.com, www.NoFooling.org, www.TylerM.info (all running IIS)

Windows Vista and Office 2007 are very close to RTM now. How can I tell? I'm reading the signs, man ;-)

I really like the RC2 of Vista.

Quicker booting, faster program loading, and IE7 works great for me.

The new blog format is appreciated as well.

Thanks

Just one thing, is there anyway to edit your replys to a topic for grammar?  Im always doing little typos so that functionality would be appreciated.

Thanks

You guys should run a competition say for a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate and/or Office 2007 to encorage people to visit and register/re-register to this website, maybe everyone that registers from the day the new site launched till Christmas could be entered automatically!

If theyre retail boxed and some of the launch team members sign the boxes that would be great motivator for everyone to join up and discuss Vista and Office 2007.

This week... Announcing the Windows Vista Team Blog, the new and improved blog of the Windows Vista Team

I will be surprised if this comment is not deleted.

I tried out the Vista Betas and Release Candidate 2, I have no clue as to what all of the rest of these people commenting are up to or which operating system they were using but I did not like it.  I saw absolutely no advantages to using Vista over XP, furthermore the now further constricting EULA expected with the new OS is intolerable.  A blog to keep developers and users in contact is hardly the kind of interaction necessary for an Operating System to be so great as to warrant all of these praises I see in these comments, or even a start in the right direction.  I think that, if Microsoft hopes to survive in the future they need to stop censoring real debate (no. 1) and realize that to make money in the software market you needn't lock up and black box the frame by which the system runs (no. 2).

Hey tylermenezes:  Thanks :)  We use Community Server for the blog -- check it out at communityserver.org.

If you haven't seen it on the http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/ , Jim Allchin (Co-President of the Platform

I understand that Vista supports Symbolic Links, is that the case? Can these by managed from Windows Explorer or are they command line driven like Junctions?

Hi Jim and Vista Team,

Superb blog design!

Here in Germany, we are waiting for the Vista RTM...

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